anchor.host vs name.com

name.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 143 use anchor.host and 1,692 use name.com.

name.com sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (anchor.host: 19, name.com: 25).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, anchor.host went from 0.01% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while name.com went from 0.21% to 0.19%. anchor.host is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so anchor.host and name.com are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.